The King of the Belgians has been visiting Windsor, was
enter- tained_at the Mansion House on Thursday, and presented with the freedom of the City, has received addresses from Volunteers and others, and has given most friendly replies. The gist of the addresses is that England and Belgium are very much alike as to constitutions, and the gist of the replies that the King likes England, and has a certain pride in claiming intimate relation with her Royal Family. The proceedings have generally been most unexceptionable, the citizens and volunteers seeming really to sympathize with the rather bourgeois Belgian monarchy. Lord Mayor Besley, in particular, in proposing His Majesty's health, made a capital speech, with a point in it, the relation, or so to speak, kinship between the Guildhalls of London and the splendid mediteval Townhalla of Brussels, Antwerp, and Ghent.
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